Arts And Humanities MCQ Questions Answers

1. During the cultural revolution, schools were closed and an attempt was made to eradicate ___ .

2. The avant-garde is often _________________________ of political and artistic change .

3. Realism is a style of art that _____.

4. Harmonies built on the dominant (fifth scale degree) have a tendency toward the _____.

5. Chanticleer was a _____.

6. A writer has achieved _____ when all ideas in a paragraph relate to the main idea.

7. When writing a problem-and-solution essay, it is important to gather details that _____.

8. The japanese theater musicians played a stringed instrument called a ____.

9. Listen to the musical excerpt. its musical texture is__________.

10. Schubert's songs number more than ______.

11. In da capo form, more elaborate ornamentation occurs primarily in the ________ section(s).

12. John plays ___________ on this rare cut from 1975.

13. Count basie corner pocket in this video you see ____?

14. The first instrumental break features a(n) _____ solo and band.

15. The standard 12-bar blues progression uses only ______ harmonic chords.

16. The full-choir gospel style was started by ___________ in the early 1930s.

17. Robert schumann's fantasiestcke is a(n) ______.

18. Wagner advocated that, in opera, the orchestra should __________.

19. This movement's opening theme is heard in a(n) ________ key.

20. Nirvanas album ________________ launched the alternative rock boom in the 1990s.

21. Sometimes a composer will collaborate with a ____________ who writes the words of the song.

22. The church frowned on instruments because of their ______.

23. In blue cathedral, higdon incorporates___________, effectively evoking an asian soundscape.

24. Joshua redman & stevie wonder duke tribute in this video you see ___________________?

25. In verdis operas the orchestra plays a greater role in ________ and a lesser role in ________.

26. In the first movement of symphony no. 5, beethoven transforms the opening motif by __________.

27. In modern music ______.

28. In harmony, the ________ is considered a place of rest and return.

29. In electronic music, there is no need for ______.

30. In baroque instrumental music, ________ were used to suggest pastoral scenes.

31. Paul's wife, linda, plays ________ during this song.

32. The bowed string instrument with the highest range is the _____.

33. The beatles's recording _________ can be considered a unified song cycle.

34. The baroque system of figured bass allowed the performer to _____.

35. Regarding wynton marsalis, it is correct to affirm that __________?

36. Ralph vaughan williams was a(n) ________ composer.

37. Quality recorded music was not available until 1897 with the invention of the __________.

38. In britain in the 1950s and early 1960s, a teenage fad known as the _________ was all the rage.

39. In musical notation, silence is indicated by ______.

40. In its simplest form, the only three chords are used in the blues; the ____, ____, and ____ chords.

41. The dominant and the ______________are considered active chords.

42. One way that unity is often achieved in the classical symphony is by the use of the same ______.

43. The cultural influence of jazz was from people of __________ heritage.

44. Paul and john sing duo style on this live recording from the ______________ sessions.

45. The biggest selling elvis single was __________________, with both sides reaching #1 in the u.s.

46. The early band member discussed in this clip played _________ with the first beatles incarnation.

47. Jelly roll morton rated _________as the best of the cornet kings

48. In schoenbergs pierrot lunaire, pierrot is a(n) _____.

49. In opera the recitative provided narrative while the __________ provided commentary on the plot.

50. In musical forms ________ stimulates our interest and feeds our desire for change.

51. The combination of two traditional chords sounding together is known as ______.

52. The famous aria la donna mobile is taken from verdi's opera ______.

53. The blending of african music tradition with european church music in known as the ________.

54. Johannes brahms wrote a total of ______ symphonies.

55. The persian and arabic word sharm can best be defined as _____.

56. The siku is a type of ______ common to andean music traditions.

57. Each poem in pierrot lunaire is in ________ form.

58. Antonin dvok's symphony no. 9 ______.

59. This song will prove to be _________ by this song's composer and lead singer.

60. The hereditary class of bards in african cultures is known as the __________ tradition.

61. Until recently, ______ in bali did not participate in playing the gamelan.

62. Scott joplins piano rags are in the form of ___.

63. A ___________ sign is used in musical notation to cancel a previous sharp or flat sign.

64. A classical concerto is a three-movement work for ______.

65. _________ is universally acknowledged as the greatest of all stride pianists.

66. _____ music gives equal importance to the twelve tones of the chromatic scale.

67. _____ is/are not characteristic of impressionist music.

68. According to intersection theory, ___________ is a source of social disadvantage.

69. According to ernest nagel, the final basis of the atheistic critique of theism is ____.

70. Western art music is the _______________ music of european and euro-american society.

71. If you are singing alone in the shower, you are creating a ______ texture.

72. Amplitude range is measured in _____.

73. The highest form of individual expression in a jazz performance is the __________.

74. The _________ form supplies a large architecture for motivic development.

75. When tones are separated by the interval called a(n) ______, they sound very much alike.

76. The notation of troubadour and trouvre melodies does not indicate ______.

77. The italian ________ was considered to be the most advanced secular vocal form in the renaissance.

78. The following instrument is found among the ________ ethnic group in ghana, west africa.

79. The five-note scale playable on the black keys of the piano is called the ________ scale.

80. The first commercially successful tin pan alley song was written in ___.

81. The _________ pedal is the most important of the three pedals usually found on a piano.

82. The _________ has strings that are plucked by a set of plastic, leather, or quill wedges.

83. One of the most important teachers of musical composition in the twentieth century was ______.

84. Leonard bernstein was influenced, particularly in his ballets, by _______.

85. The music of the nineteenth century reflects a(n) __________.

86. West side story is a modern retelling of _________.

87. The xylophone uses a set of _____ bars that are played with mallets.

88. The rondo may be schematically outlined as _______.

89. The rhythmic pattern of long-short repeated throughout the piece defines the _____.

90. The overall form of debussys prelude to "the afternoon of a faun" is best described as _____.

91. The neoclassical movement in music roughly encompassed the years ______.

92. Schubert was ___ years old when he died.

93. Non-program music is also known as _____________ music.

94. Niccol paganini was a _____.

95. Neoclassical compositions are characterized by ______.

96. Mozart was born in ______.

97. Light german opera featuring spoken dialogue is called _____.

98. When you turn off a high-speed, two-lane roadway, _______ if you have traffic following you.

99. The _____ is the number of vehicles and pedestrians that pass by the site.

100. Scanning low allows you to locate__________before you hit them.